Above The Law

MARCH 16, 2023

Take that, North Carolina. Source NM ] * Plan on clerking any time after law school? Bloomberg Law ] The post Morning Docket: 03.16.23 appeared first on Above the Law. You should probably know about the ministerial exception — here's a primer. [

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JURIST

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Marisa Wright is a US National Correspondent for JURIST, and a 2L at Harvard Law School. . Harper stems from a challenge to North Carolina’s congressional and legislative redistricting plan as unconstitutional partisan gerrymanders. The North Carolina General Assembly immediately appealed that ruling.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Joaseus and Stagg were two of 18 law students from six law schools who participated this year in the second year of a fellowship program sponsored by the LexisNexis Rule of Law Foundation and the LexisNexis African Ancestry Network, in partnership with the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Law School Consortium.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 26, 2022

North Carolina Justice. A case study in North Carolina, where over 80 percent of magistrates do not have JDs, revealed a consistent failure of justice, the researchers said. Lastly, Greene and Renberg note that North Carolina spends little time training its magistrates. Kristen Renberg is a J.D.

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The IP Law Blog

AUGUST 19, 2021

How many of the lawyers out there liked hypotheticals in law school? So, for those of you who enjoy hypotheticals, here it is: Company A, a North Carolina LLC, owns four patents. Company B has the same corporate address in North Carolina and the same five shareholders as Company A.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Marisa Wright is a US national staff correspondent for JURIST, and a 2L at Harvard Law School. . When newly seated Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson recused herself from the Harvard case, the Court split them back up so that she could hear the case against North Carolina. The case, Students for Fair Admissions Inc.

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LawSites

JULY 8, 2021

Now, LexisNexis and the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Law School Consortium have partnered to launch a fellowship initiative for 12 law students to spend nine months working to end this systemic racism and further the rule of law. .

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Above The Law

APRIL 17, 2023

They've received a lot of support from fellow law students. The post Law School’s Ban Of 2L Draws Protest From Students appeared first on Above the Law.

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Court-MartialTrialPractice

JANUARY 30, 2021

” Michele Benedetto Neitz, Pulling Back the Curtain: Implicit Bias in the Law School Dean Search Process , 49 SETON HALL L. That was the question addressed by the Supreme Court of North Carolina in State v. 629, 656 (2019) ( quoting J. Donald & Sarah E. Crump , 851 S.E.2d 2d 904 (N.C.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Board of Trustees of North Carolina State University. The article is the outgrowth of remarks that I gave a Maryland Law School at a Supreme Court symposium. The Law review asked me if I would be willing to convert my remarks into a law review article.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Share Walter Dellinger, a constitutional scholar and skilled advocate who argued 24 cases at the Supreme Court, died on Wednesday at his home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He was a long-time member of the Duke Law School faculty, which he joined in 1969. William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law at Duke Law School.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

For example, according to Josie Caves Sivaraman, a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University School of Medicine, North Carolina has no restriction, and anyone over the age of 18 can purchase a firearm. Darrell Miller, an attorney and a Melvin G.

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Patently O

OCTOBER 21, 2022

by David Hricik, Mercer Law School. In North Carolina Legal Eth. Giving a talk in Austin and thought I’d share a couple of interesting results I’ll be speaking about later today. This applies even if opposing counsel is present, as discussed below.). 2012-7 (Oct. The conclusion?

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JURIST

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Marisa Wright is a US National Correspondent for JURIST, and a 2L at Harvard Law School. . University of North Carolina and Students for Fair Admissions Inc. The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Monday morning in two cases challenging the validity of race-conscious affirmative action programs in college admission.

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Patently O

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

By David Hricik, Mercer Law School. There is, however, case law to the contrary not acknowledged by the ABA. For example, North Carolina Legal Eth. Ordinarily, under Model Rule 4.2 In Formal Ethics Opinion 503 (Nov. 2, 2022) ( here ), the ABA indicated that implied consent likely occurs under these circumstances.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Notably, the most-downloaded episode featured a discussion of how law schools should teach tech, with April G. Dawson , associate dean of technology and innovation and professor of law at North Carolina Central University School of Law. How Law Schools Should Teach Tech, with April Dawson.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Law schools are also facing controversial mandates. In 2022, the American Bar Association required law schools to “provide education to law students on bias, cross-cultural competency, and racism: (1) at the start of the program of legal education, and (2) at least once again before graduation.” and Maurice C.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

University of North Carolina and Students for Fair Admissions v. Yet these institutions do not seemingly satisfy the diversity criteria that Harvard or the University of North Carolina declare necessary for a proper educational environment. President & Fellows of Harvard College. A preview of the case is here.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Notably, the most-downloaded episode featured a discussion of how law schools should teach tech, with April G. Dawson , associate dean of technology and innovation and professor of law at North Carolina Central University School of Law. How Law Schools Should Teach Tech, with April Dawson.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 7, 2021

District attorneys around the country are deeply involved in lobbying for tough criminal justice legislation, but the minority of prosecutors who push for reform measures exert a powerful influence on state legislators, according to researchers at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Law School.

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The Crime Report

MAY 19, 2022

A recent report from the Quattrone Center on the Fair Administration of Jujstice at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School provides comprehensive guidelines for “collaboration agreements” that outline how to handle discovery of misconduct and other delicate issues like media relationships and information sharing.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 18, 2021

Now University of North Carolina law student Sagar Sharma, who is a student of color, has faced a recall election as the first-year class co-president for simply stating that he did not consider an argument between two fellow students to be racist.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Ho of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit recently made headlines when he publicly declared that he would no longer consider graduates of Yale Law School for clerkship positions due to the erosion of free speech rights at the university. Judge James C.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2022

University of North Carolina and Students for Fair Admissions v. Bernstein holds a university professorship chair at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School. Share This article is part of a symposium on the upcoming arguments in Students for Fair Admissions v. President & Fellows of Harvard College.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 31, 2023

For marginalized communities in North Carolina, it is critically important that UNC and other area institutions produce highly educated professionals of color. Sweeping claims of systemic racism are often made with little scrutiny in law schools and other departments. It saves lives.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 31, 2024

There is a curious resolution of a civil right complaint against University of Minnesota Law School over a diversity fellowship sponsored by the law firm of Jones Day. Despite being created by a law firm and administered by a law school, the fellowship violated federal law in excluding white and male applicants.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Bollinger that the University of Michigan Law School could consider race in its admissions process as part of its efforts to assemble a diverse student body. Federal courts in Boston and North Carolina rejected the group’s arguments and upheld the universities’ admissions policies, prompting the Supreme Court to take up the cases.

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LegalTalkNetwork

AUGUST 22, 2016

Cynthia Cwik: Chair of the ABA Section of Science & Technology Law. Heather Rafter: Former Chair of the ABA Section of Science & Technology Law. Paul Stam: Speaker Pro Tempore in the North Carolina House of Representatives. Law School and Writing Legal Dramas for Television.

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MyCase

MARCH 10, 2023

Accidentally commingling or misusing those funds can have very serious consequences for lawyers, so maintaining IOLTA account compliance is top of mind for many law firms. Unfortunately, most law schools don’t spend enough time going into the practical ways this is done.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 20, 2021

We recently discussed the case of University of North Carolina law student Sagar Sharma, a student of color, who faced a recall election as the first-year class co-president. The charges are connected to the prior controversy and raise serious free speech and retaliatory concerns at the law school. .

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Instead, the punishment regime adopted by states since the 1990s is fueling a ”geriatric explosion” in the nation’s prisons that’s likely to overwhelm the correctional system’s ability to provide the services needed for aging prisoners, warned criminologist Frank Baumgartner of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Researchers at the Quattrone Center, based at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, created what they said was a unique dataset of 4,644 opinions in which allegations of misconduct were raised in the more than 1.5 million judicial opinions published between 2000 and 2016 by federal and state courts in Pennsylvania.

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LegalTalkNetwork

MARCH 4, 2020

Agin (Elevate Services – Managing Director for Digital Strategy & Solutions) Abdi Aidid (Blue J Legal Vice – President of Legal Research) Benjamin Alarie (Blue J Legal – CEO) Heidi Alexande r (MassLOMAP – Director) Bob Ambrogi (LexBlog – Publisher and Editor-in-Chief) Christopher Anderson (Profit First for Lawyers (..)

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

For example, as of August 2016, North Carolina had 1,173 MW of installed solar photovoltaic (“PV”) capacity as a direct result of PURPA. Jeffrey Hammons is an Associate Attorney at the Environmental Law & Policy Center in Chicago, IL, where his litigation practice covers issues of pollution control and energy law.

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JURIST

AUGUST 29, 2023

Local police announced Monday that an active shooter on the University of North Carolina’s (UNC) Chapel Hill campus shot and killed a faculty member. ” Earlier in March, North Carolina lawmakers overrode a veto from Governor Roy Cooper to enact less restrictive gun laws. We need legislative change.”

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

And it is true that other states continue to look at various reform measures along these same lines, including Colorado, North Carolina and Illinois. The same is true for the courts of tomorrow, the legal departments of tomorrow, the law schools of tomorrow, and the conferences of tomorrow.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 8, 2023

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has delivered a body blow to free speech as well as academic freedom in a ruling against a statistics professor at North Carolina State University. Professor Stephen Porter objected to what he considered the lower standards used by his school to hire minority faculty.

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